compile_et command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

compile_et: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: compile_et: command not found

Solutions to compile_et: command not found

How To Fix compile_et: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu compile_et is provided by comerr-dev package.

comerr-dev is:

libcom_err is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use.

This package contains the development environment for the com_err library.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install comerr-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install comerr-dev.

sudo apt -y install comerr-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install comerr-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix compile_et command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.